JERUSALEM / ISTANBUL Approximately 100,000 Palestinians offered weekly Friday prayers in congregation at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for the second time during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, despite Israeli restrictions, according to an official. Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, director general of the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, told Anadolu that roughly 100,000 Muslims attended prayers at the Al-Aqsa compound. An Anadolu correspondent reported a heavy deployment of

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